More rats: that’s the latest indignity that climate change is dumping on major cities around the world, including in Canada’s ...

Climate change is fueling a surge in rat populations across major US cities, with Washington, DC, seeing the worst increase ...

Climate change is contributing to a global rise in urban rat infestations, according to a new Science Advances study. As ...

Global warming is worsening droughts, making sea levels rise, and fueling deadly storms. Now scientists have a new problem to ...

A new study finds that rat infestation in many of the world’s cities appears to be soaring, especially in Washington ...

In the first study of its kind, scientists found a correlation between climate change and a rise in urban rat populations.

There’s a saying that in a big city you are never more than six feet away from a rat. It’s an urban myth but scientists are ...

A warming climate is helping fuel the boom, and Toronto fares poorly in a study of 16 cities' rat populations.

Well, rats. A study of 16 cities shows that higher ambient temperatures and loss of green space are associated with increasing rodent complaints.

We are on our heels and being pushed backward,” Jonathan Richardson, the study’s lead author and an ecologist at the ...

The Year of the Snake began on Jan. 29, marking the start of the Lunar New Year and the end of the Year of the Dragon ...